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LARGOS, CORETOS E PRAÇAS DE BELÉM - Monumenta

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A Primeira Expansão<br />

30<br />

The First Expansion<br />

Praça Dom Pedro II.<br />

Dom Pedro II Square.<br />

Aproveitando o largo<br />

aberto e considerando sua<br />

distância do núcleo<br />

habitacional, o governo da<br />

colônia construiu ali um<br />

depósito de pólvora e<br />

armamentos, retirando do forte<br />

seus estoques e os transferindo<br />

para o novo local. Seu nome<br />

mudou, então, para Largo da<br />

Pólvora, depois Praça Dom<br />

Pedro II e hoje Praça da<br />

República.<br />

Com o cemitério e o<br />

depósito de pólvora, o<br />

movimento na Travessa dos<br />

Mirandas tornou-se constante,<br />

permitindo um crescimento<br />

maior ao já então chamado<br />

bairro da Campina.<br />

Later on, taking advantage of<br />

its distance from the town<br />

center, the government of the<br />

colony decided to build a<br />

gunpowder and weapons<br />

warehouse on the new largo, so<br />

they could move their stocks<br />

from the fort to the new<br />

location. Its name was then<br />

changed to Largo da Pólvora<br />

(Gunpowder Largo), later<br />

known as Dom Pedro II Square<br />

and currently República Square.<br />

Due to the cemetery and<br />

the gunpowder warehouse, the<br />

Mirandas Lane became a busy<br />

street, spurring the growth of<br />

the borough by then called<br />

Campina.

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